CD-adapco announces the release of the STAR-CAD Series V4.14, a range of CAD and PLM-embedded simulation environments that allow engineers and designers to perform advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analyses.

The STAR-CAD Series is specifically created to enable Design and Professional engineers to undertake flow and thermal analyses directly within their company’s chosen CAD environment. Using the power of associativity, any design change made in response to the results of the CFD simulation, is reflected almost immediately in the CFD solution. Solutions are updated at the click of a button without additional user intervention.

World energy use is projected to grow 72 percent from 2003 to 2030. Faced with growing demand, producers need ways to boost capacity and maximize supplies of fossil fuels and they are looking increasingly to CAE technologies to help.

ANSYS will be hosting an Offshore Seminar on solving real-world engineering problems in the offshore industry. The free seminar will be held Thursday, December 6, 2007 from 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. CST in Houston, TX.

NAFEMS, The International Association for the Engineering Analysis Community, is inviting papers for its 2008 UK Conference, to be held in Cheltenham on June 10th-11th 2008.

NAFEMS is an independent not-for-profit body with the sole aim of promoting the effective use of engineering simulation methods such as finite element analysis, multibody system dynamics and computational fluid dynamics.

Big waves in fierce storms have long been the focus of ship designers in simulations testing new vessels.

But a new computer program and method of analysis by University of Michigan researchers makes it easy to see that a series of smaller waves—a situation much more likely to occur—could be just as dangerous.